Juan Carlos Carredano, executive producer of the film Carlo Acutis, God’s influencerpresented the film to Pope Leo XIV, who encouraged him and his team to continue telling the life of the saints.
“It was an incredible encounter, the truth, the Pope with a lot of enthusiasm, very affectionate, very close. He was surprised to see the cartoon and above all that he was already ready and with that quality,” Carredano told ACI Press this Friday, sharing how Pope León received him after the general audience of Wednesday, September 10 in the Plaza de San Pedro in the Vatican.
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The producer, also CEO of CCC of America, told the Holy Father that he is Mexican and that “when he opened the box he saw an image with the rest of our cartoons. I want to assume that he remembered them and well gave him great pleasure.”
Leo XIV, Carredano continued, “our work thanked us very much, said he extended his blessing to our families and all who worked on the tape.”
And most importantly, said the producer of the animated film, “it was that he asked us not to stop these great stories of saints’ lives, which are needed more than ever.”
Leo XIV signed a copy of the film produced by CCC of America, which has already made other productions on Santos such as San Nicolás, San Patricio and San Francisco de Asís, as well as the Virgin of Fatima and Lourdes.
The film, which had the collaboration of the Augustine Institute, premiered on Sunday, September 7, the day of the San Carlo Acutis and San Piergio Frassati canonization, and can be seen in all households in the world through the platforms FAMFLIXin Spanish, and Formedin English.
Born on May 3, 1991, Carlo Acutis was a young Italian who from an early age lived a deep love of God, with a special devotion to Eucharistic miracles, which compiled in a digital exhibition that spread through the Internet. Sick of leukemia, Carlo died on October 12, 2006, at age 15.
Walter Sánchez Silva
I am husband since 2008. With my wife we have three children here and one who went to heaven in 2023, before birth. Since I joined ACI Press in 2005, I have had the opportunity to cover various events of the Catholic Church. Among them, the World Youth Days in Colonia, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro and the apostolic trips of Pope Benedict XVI to Mexico and Pope Francis to South Korea. I have been sent to the Vatican to cover the family’s synods, in 2015; of the Amazon, in 2019 and that of Sinodality, in 2023. I follow the situation of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, which suffers the persecution of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega, as well as the ecclesial news in the region.